‘5G’ seemed to be everywhere at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It was printed on the new products, prominent on the signage and was a major topic in the conference. Everyone was talking ‘5G’ but had you listened carefully you might have heard them asking: what is it exactly and what made it different from Gs 1, 2, 3 and 4?

The ‘Technological Singularity’ is the idea that when we distill ‘artificial superintelligence’ our technologies will be released for endless growth and improvement. Once our programs are coding ever more intelligent programs to improve upon and replace themselves, we humans can (and indeed must) stand back and enjoy the fruits of an artificial intelligence explosion as the improvement cycles speed up.

Super Panel

If NFV is about enabling netwoirk functions to run independently on common and standard compute platforms and MEC is about creating new business opportunities by providing cloud and IT service capabilities at the edge of the network, then are we correct to assume that the two are key building blocks for 5G?

This panel explores:

Chicken and Egg: Which comes first NFV or MEC?

Does MEC even need NFV?

Do the new use cases that MEC will purportedly enable help justify the CSPs RoI in NFV?

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